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Farhad Novian

MANAGING PARTNER

farhad@novianlaw.com
Los Angeles  |  P. 310-553-1222
F: 310-553-0222

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Farhad Novian

MANAGING PARTNER

farhad@novianlaw.com
Los Angeles  |  P. 310-553-1222
F: 310-553-0222

Farhad Novian vcf card

Practice Areas

Business & Commercial Law

Business Litigation

Food and Hospitality Industry Litigation

Insurance Litigation

Intellectual Property Law –Trade Secret Misappropriation, Copyright and Trademark

Labor and Employment Law

Real Estate Law

Securities Law

Education

Loyola Law School (J.D., 1984)

University of California (B.A. Economics and Political Science, 1981)

For more than 30 years, Farhad Novian, the Managing Partner of Novian & Novian LLP,  has advised, counseled and represented businesses and individuals in a broad range of corporate/business transactions and related disputes. These matters have been resolved or adjudicated at the state or federal level through court trials, jury verdicts, at arbitration, at mediation or informally.  In so doing, Farhad has built and manages a highly capable and skilled team of corporate, litigation and transactional attorneys providing legal services to the Novian clients, all at competitive rates.

Experience

Farhad’s business counseling and litigation advocacy skills have successfully resolved or adjudicated disputes and matters involving trade secret misappropriation, business fraud, copyright and trademark, labor and employment, licensing, partnership and real estate matters.  Farhad has also garnered success in representing numerous privately held and publicly traded companies on transactional matters in the corporate, entertainment, hospitality, real estate and technology fields from the start-up funding phase, to operations, to mergers and acquisitions.

Farhad earned a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from UCLA in 1981. He received his Juris Doctor from Loyola Law School Los Angeles, in 1984.  In 1988, the brother combination of Farid and Farhad founded Novian & Novian and has remained consistently strong players in the legal community since then.  For close to two decades, Farhad has enjoyed recognition as an “AV” rated lawyer via the peer-review system established and administered by Martindale-Hubbell, with “AV” being the highest rating for “legal ability” and “faithful adherence to the professional standards of conduct and legal ethics of the legal profession, professional reliability and diligence . . . .”   Farhad, has also been voted as a repeat member of the Super Lawyers peer review society since 2015.

Farhad is active in state and federal bar associations and regularly lectures at UCLA on real estate and hospitality law and has participated in the “Boardroom Series” lectures on corporate structuring matters before young entrepreneurial professionals. As a community participant, Farhad is a Co-President at Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills and a volunteer in several other community organizations. Farhad is a father of two sons and enjoys playing tennis during his off hours and is an avid art enthusiast.

Bar Admissions

California, 1985

U.S. District Court Central District of California, 1985

U.S. District Court Eastern District of California, 1985

U.S. District Court Northern District of California, 1985

U.S. District Court Southern District of California, 1985

U.S. District Court Western District of California, 1985

U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit, 1985

Professional Associations & Memberships

American Bar Association

Los Angeles County Bar Association

American Trial Lawyers Association

Beverly Hills Bar Association

International Trademark Association

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